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Longtime collector Gene Gardner passed away earlier this month after a long illness. In this episode of CoinWeek Podcast, we reach out to Gardner's friend and Heritage Auctions President Greg Rohan to discuss his collection and Heritage's involvement with selling it. Later the conversation turns towards the state of the rare coin market today and why you shouldn't count out younger generations of collectors as a number of 40 and 50 year old buyers are now putting together the major collections that we will be reading about in the years to come. This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. The standard in the rare coin grading industry. Visit www.pcgs.com to learn more. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Pamela Thomas and Loreen Williamson are co-curators and owners of the Museum of UnCut Funk, the internet's first virtual museum dedicated to the preservation and celebration of 1970s black culture and all things funky. Drawing from Thomas' and Williamson's own personal collections, the Museum provides enthusiasts with a unique and exciting view of art and artifacts from this exciting period in American life. One of the museum's holdings is a collection of U.S. coins and medals depicting African-American subjects, such as Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson.

In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, Charles Morgan talks with Pamela and Loreen about coins, the importance of African-American representation on money, the forthcoming Harriet Tubman Federal Reserve Note, the 2017 American Liberty High Relief gold coin, and who the two would like to see honored on a future coin or medal.

It's an interesting and lively discussion that illustrates the vitality of numismatics in American life and how we are living in historic times.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. The standard in the rare coin grading industry. Visit www.pcgs.com to learn more. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Few in the coin industry have been as successful in bringing mainstream attention to numismatics as has Donn Pearlman, former ANA Governor, and 2015 Farran Zerbe Award winner. Donn is the press agent for PNG, Heritage Auctions, the ANA, and a number of other high profile industry clients. He has also been at the center of a number of the hobby's headlining stories for the decades.

In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, Charles asks Donn about his involvement in the recovery of the Walton 1913 nickel, seeks Donn's opinion about the state of numismatic journalism, and ponders whether structural changes to the industry that took place decades ago have led to the bifurcated coin market that we see today.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. The standard in the rare coin grading industry. Visit www.pcgs.com to learn more. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

CoinWeek contributing writer Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez sits down with Charles Morgan at the summer FUN show to discuss what he sees happening in the modern coin market. Topics discussed: the first spouse gold coin series, U.S. olympic coins, and how spot prices effect numismatic premiums on common coins.

Joshua also announces his new role as co-editor of Fun Topics magazine, the official magazine of Florida United Numismatists.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. The standard in the rare coin grading industry. Visit www.pcgs.com to learn more.

CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

On June 25 numismatic icon Chester "Chet" Krause passed away. He was 92 years old. In this episode of the Coinweek podcast we talk to Numismatic News editor Dave Harper about Chet Krause, the company he created, and the legacy he left behind.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Former CCAC Chairman Gary Marks is our guest in this 30+ minute long episode of the CoinWeek Podcast. CoinWeek Editor Charles Morgan asks Gary the question nearly every collector wants answered: Why were classic coin designs better than what the Mint puts out today? Gary's answer may surprise you.

We talk about the bureaucracy of the coin design process, whether the CCAC's critiques ever angered coin designers, and of all of the modern coins Gary had seen come through the committee, which were his favorites.

We also ask Gary about his silver round program and what its like to restore an authentic Native American totem pole.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Franklin half dollars have long been a collector favorite. One of the most attractive 20th century coins, the crisp, clean design leaves provides precious little cover for bag marks and scratches. Advanced collectors seek out the best specimens. For some dates, conditional rarities in high Mint State grades bring tens of thousands of dollars.

In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, adapted from Ron Drzewucki's CoinWeek column "Grading Coins", we delve into how a professional grader looks at the series and what differentiates low Mint State Franklins from high Mint State examples.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Writer Mike Markowitz's insightful article "193: The Year of Five Emperors" recalls one of the bloodiest and most treacherous years in Roman history. A year that makes Game of Thrones' Westeros seem like a quaint and stable fiefdom. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we adapt Mike's gladiator's march down memory lane to audio.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Harvey Stack is a numismatic luminary. Having lived a full life completely immersed in the coin hobby and industry, the elder Stack has a love for coins and their collectors unlike any other living figure in the hobby.

In this CoinWeek Mega Podcast, no topic is off limits. Charles and Harvey discuss the 1933 double eagle and the government's attempts to seize what it considers "illegal coins", why major collections matter, and how the coin industry has been dramatically transformed in the past 50 years. We also talk about the first major collector Harvey ever met, Colonel E. H. R. Green.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.

Germany's numismatic history offers adventurous collectors large helpings of variety and complexity, but where does one start if they'd like to delve deeply into Deutschland's monetary past?

In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, I talk to 2014 American Numismatic Association Numismatist of the Year and PCGS CoinFacts President Ron Guth about his passion for German Coins and why this is an area of collecting that continues to excite and surprise.

This CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Take home your copy of The PCGS Periodic Table of U.S. Coins poster, featuring high-resolution images of virtually all coins minted for circulation by the United States. Available only on Amazon dot com. *** CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 4 years running! Take your hobby the next level! Be sure to share this video with your friends and be sure to check out all CoinWeek has to offer by visiting us at www.coinweek.com. Copyright ©2016 CoinWeek, LLC. Published with Permission.